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Definition of Leicester

1. Noun. A largely agricultural county in central England.

2. Noun. An industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement.

Definition of Leicester

1. Proper noun. A city in Leicestershire, England ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leicester

Legionnaires Lego Lego set Legoland Legolands Leguminosae Legundi Lehar Lehigh River Leia

Leibnitz Leibnitzian Leibniz Leibniz's law Leibnizian Leicester (current term) Leicestershire Leichtenstern's phenomenon Leichtenstern's sign Leichtlin's camas

Leics Leiden Leiden jar Leidenfrost effect Leidig cell Leidy Leigh Leigh's disease Leigh Hunt Leighton

Literary usage of Leicester

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1898)
"For some time he was a member of the town council of Leicester ; and he was one of the founders of the Mechanics' Institute in that town, and honorary ..."

2. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1890)
"In the Civil War Leicester held out for the Parliament, and was taken in 1642 by Prince Rupert. Jn the centre of the town, at the intersection of the five ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Leicester, les'ter, England, county- town of Leicestershire, on the river Soar, a southern tributary of the Trent, 99 miles northwest of London, ..."

4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Cattle are reared in large numbers, while of sheep the New Leicester breed is well ... The county is especially famed for fox-hunting, Leicester and Melton ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"In this reasoning, however, Leicester left out of account the vital importance of this ... The yet more stringent prohibition proposed by Leicester at the ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1905)
"In this reasoning, however, Leicester left out of account the vital importance of this ... The yet more stringent prohibition proposed by Leicester at the ..."

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